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Accessory

REVIEW: XtremeMac MicroMemo iPod Microphone

XtremeMac’s MicroMemo is a new voice recorder for the iPod that captures 16-bit audio at 22 kHz and 44 kHz to the hard drive.

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Accessory

Q&A: Speck Products SeeThru MBP Hard Shell

After I posted a note about the new See•Thru hard shell for the MacBook Pro on my ZDNet blog I received some questions about its thermal characteristics.

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Software

Hack Your Ambient Light and Sudden Motion Sensors with Lilt

Jon Nathan has released a new application called Lilt that uses the ambient light and/or the sudden motion sensors in recent Mac portables to launch apps, files, or AppleScripts. Triggering a script allows you to do some pretty cool things (several example script actions are included).

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battery

MiniBatteryLoger 1.4.4

MiniBatteryLogger monitors your laptop’s battery. It traces the graph
of charge and amperage over time, compares your battery with other
users, logs relevant power events and alerts you with Growl
notifications.

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The Apple Core

The Apple Core: DIY Mac paint

Many people have responded positively to Apple’s latest PRODUCT (RED) iPod nano and further rumors that Apple may release other products in (RED) to support the cause. Customers are becoming optimistic that (RED) iPods and the return of multi-colored nanos on October 12 could signal that Apple is going to again release more colored enclosures.